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...deceased one. The fact that she understands his compulsive comparison of spouses only provokes his anger. "You leave me so much room to be cruel in," he tells her. Out of a painful episode in the playwright's life evolves a broader study of a marriage trapped in a vicious cycle of guilt that inspires pain, which in turn yields compassion--only to create new guilt...
Hammer, a writer and lecturer, says in her book that "women tend to live through and in response to other people." One consequence, she says, is that,"a vicious cycle has developed in which women who were not encouraged to grow up raised daughters who are not encouraged to grow up either." Friday adds that as "the first and lasting model" for their daughters, mothers all too often pass on clinging, dependent attitudes, a fear of sex and an impoverished sense of self...
...fact that his new wife understands his compulsive comparison of spouses only provokes his anger. "You leave me so much room to be cruel in," he tells her. Out of a painful episode in the playwright's life evolves a broader study of a marriage trapped in a vicious cycle of guilt that inspires pain which in turn yields forgiveness, only to create new guilt...
...Like the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties' Requests, the Beatles' "Revolution #9," or anything by Led Zeppelin, Public Image suffers from too much unearned self-seriousness. "A man's reach should exceed his grasp," Browning wrote, "or what's a heaven for?" Well, not for rock and roll. Sid Vicious got out in the nick of time...
...rise in nonfood prices suggests that many manufacturers are betting that a period of vicious inflation leading to mandatory price controls lies ahead, and are kicking up prices before the controls are imposed. Feeding these inflationary expectations are the gloomy forecasts of a number of alarmist economists who have been blowing taps for President Carter's voluntary Stage Two wage-price restraints almost from the moment they were announced last fall...